[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 49, Volume 6]
[Revised as of October 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 49CFR835.2]

[Page 211]
 
                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
                              SAFETY BOARD
 
PART 835--TESTIMONY OF BOARD EMPLOYEES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 835.2  Definitions.

    Accident, for purposes of this part includes ``incident.''
    Board accident report means the report containing the Board's 
determinations, including the probable cause of an accident, issued 
either as a narrative report or in a computer format (``briefs'' of 
accidents). Pursuant to section 701(e) of the Federal Aviation Act of 
1958 (FA Act), and section 304(c) of the Independent Safety Board Act of 
1974 (49 U.S.C. 1154(b)) (Safety Act), no part of a Board accident 
report may be admitted as evidence or used in any suit or action for 
damages growing out of any matter mentioned in such reports.
    Factual accident report means the report containing the results of 
the investigator's investigation of the accident. The Board does not 
object to, and there is no statutory bar to, admission in litigation of 
factual accident reports. In the case of a major investigation, group 
chairman factual reports are factual accident reports.

[63 FR 71607, Dec. 29, 1998, as amended at 64 FR 5622, Feb. 4, 1999]